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Petition: Share government-developed software under an open source license

A petition is available for signing urging the US government to "Maximize the public benefit of federal technology by sharing government-developed software under an open source license" One of the top three reasons given is "Openness: Open Sourcing ensures basic fairness and transparency by making software and related artifacts available to the citizens who provided funding, consistent with the President’s 2009 declaration that “Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset.”" Registration is required to sign the petition. The goal is to get 25,000 signatures by August 16 and they have a long way to go to achieve that goal.

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X.Org Foundation achieves non-profit public charity status

The X.Org Foundation has announced that it has been recognized as a non-profit public charity in the U.S., making tax-deductible donations possible. "Contributions to the X.Org Foundation are used to further our mission to support the development of the open source graphics stack based on the X Window System, and to educate students and developers about the technology in the stack."

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Deploying Rails--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Deploying Rails" by Tom Copeland and Anthony Burns.

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GStreamer Conference schedule announced

The schedule for this year's GStreamer conference is now available. The conference will be held August 27-28 in San Diego, CA just prior to LinuxCon North America. "In addition to talks about core GStreamer topics like GStreamer 1.0, the GStreamer SDK and hardware enablement with GStreamer 1.0, we can also offer a great selection of talks on related multimedia technologies such as ALSA, Wayland, V4L, OpenGL and Mesa and the Opus Audio Codec this year."

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Bitcoin Conference

The Bitcoin Conference will take place September 15-16, 2012 in London, UK. "This conference will be bringing Bitcoin to the mainstream. We will reach out to the general public with primer talks and workshops. We hope for this conference to bring greater opportunities to the community by promoting upcoming talent, and bringing investment to this fledgling economy."

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The Linux Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers, Co-located Events for LinuxCon Europe

The Linux Foundation has announced the keynote speakers and the co-located events for LinuxCon Europe. LinuxCon Europe and the Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE) will take place in Barcelona, Spain, November 5-7, 2012. The call for papers for both is open until August 1. Other co-located events include EFL Dev Day, KVM Forum, Yocto Project Developer Day, and more.

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PyCon Argentina 2012

PyConAR will take place November 12-17, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A PostgreSQL mini-conference will be held in parallel with PyConAR sprints.

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LCA2013 call for proposals closes

linux.conf.au have closed their call for proposals, achieving a near-record number of proposals since the conference began in 1999. Successful proposals will be announced in September 2012. LCA will be held January 28 - February 2, 2013 in Canberra, Australia.

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Events: July 26, 2012 to September 24, 2012

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
July 26 July 29	GNOME Users And Developers European Conference	A Coruña, Spain
August 3 August 4	Texas Linux Fest	San Antonio, TX, USA
August 8 August 10	21st USENIX Security Symposium	Bellevue, WA, USA
August 18 August 19	PyCon Australia 2012	Hobart, Tasmania
August 20 August 22	YAPC::Europe 2012 in Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt/Main, Germany
August 20 August 21	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters	Taipei, Taiwan
August 25	Debian Day 2012 Costa Rica	San José, Costa Rica
August 27 August 28	XenSummit North America 2012	San Diego, CA, USA
August 27 August 28	GStreamer conference	San Diego, CA, USA
August 27 August 29	Kernel Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
August 28 August 30	Ubuntu Developer Week	IRC
August 29 August 31	2012 Linux Plumbers Conference	San Diego, CA, USA
August 29 August 31	LinuxCon North America	San Diego, CA, USA
August 30 August 31	Linux Security Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
August 31 September 2	Electromagnetic Field	Milton Keynes, UK
September 1 September 2	Kiwi PyCon 2012	Dunedin, New Zealand
September 1 September 2	VideoLAN Dev Days 2012	Paris, France
September 1	Panel Discussion Indonesia Linux Conference 2012	Malang, Indonesia
September 3 September 8	DjangoCon US	Washington, DC, USA
September 3 September 4	Foundations of Open Media Standards and Software	Paris, France
September 4 September 5	Magnolia Conference 2012	Basel, Switzerland
September 8 September 9	Hardening Server Indonesia Linux Conference 2012	Malang, Indonesia
September 10 September 13	International Conference on Open Source Systems	Hammamet, Tunisia
September 14 September 16	Debian Bug Squashing Party	Berlin, Germany
September 14 September 21	Debian FTPMaster sprint	Fulda, Germany
September 14 September 16	KPLI Meeting Indonesia Linux Conference 2012	Malang, Indonesia
September 15 September 16	Bitcoin Conference	London, UK
September 15 September 16	PyTexas 2012	College Station, TX, USA
September 17 September 19	Postgres Open	Chicago, IL, USA
September 17 September 20	SNIA Storage Developers' Conference	Santa Clara, CA, USA
September 18 September 21	SUSECon	Orlando, Florida, US
September 19 September 20	Automotive Linux Summit 2012	Gaydon/Warwickshire, UK
September 19 September 21	2012 X.Org Developer Conference	Nürnberg, Germany
September 21	Kernel Recipes	Paris, France
September 21 September 23	openSUSE Summit	Orlando, FL, USA

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